and, especially, to estimate national poverty indicators. The specific context of insecurity and lack of statistical … infrastructure in Somalia posed several challenges for implementing a household survey and measuring poverty. This paper outlines how … time on the ground based on the Rapid Consumption Methodology. Third, poverty in completely inaccessible areas had to be …

Frequent measurement of poverty is challenging because measurement often relies on complex and expensive expenditure … questions about the consistency of the poverty tracking efforts currently applied across countries, since obtaining exhaustive …

widely used to assess well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income, so an … Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as measured in the Current Population … Survey. We use HRS consumption data to calculate a consumption-based poverty rate and study the relationship between income …

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …

Monitoring of poverty indexes and structure of household expenditures is one of diagnostic and warning tool for social … politics. Well-being or poverty of selected households’ groups can be illustrated not only by mentioned categories, but also by … possession of consumer durables. Thus, there is implication for poverty and possession (or lack) of some consumer durable goods …

We consider an asset-based alternative to the standard use of expenditures in defining well-being and poverty. Our … valid deflators) necessary to make inter-temporal and inter-regional poverty comparisons is scarce. We evaluate an index … is a valid predictor of what is arguably the most crucial manifestation of poverty - child malnutrition. Further …